Why is this topic even changed? The comment about "tech schools in India" was a small sarcastic remark in the middle of a set of guidelines we would request if someone wants to break the record. Stop picking on this little small thing and look at the big picture.
We put in a lot of our time and energy so that other people can have the fame and glory. I think it's perfectly reasonable for us to ask people to put in some effort themselves if they want this 24-hour record. You will do it alone for 24 hours just so that you understand the excruciating pain that you will feel, and then you will provide some staff to help out. I'm not responding anymore about our academic workload at Caltech. It's not relevant at all. I have made it clear that I am open to running another 24-hour marathon. I do not see the necessity of continuing this discussion unless someone feels that guidelines that I have set forth are unfair. This is not a forum to discuss Caltech's homework load. The reason for bringing that up was simply to say that we're busy students, and if we are expected to take time out of our lives, you should be willing to help us out and make things easier for us. And Joel, if you want to seriously attempt this record, I'd be willing to run the event if you would be willing to fly to the United States. Otherwise, you're better off coordinating something with Ron. It's unfortunate that we're all separated geographically. I know Richard Patterson was talking about breaking the record. If he wants to try it, I'm open to it. Unless the guidelines I posted earlier are unreasonable, there's no need to argue. Personally, I'd love to see one of you guys try to break the record. It would be very entertaining for me, to see the human limits pushed as far as possible. Also, the dialogue that results from sleep deprivation because very very funny. Tyson Mao Astrophysics '06 California Institute of Technology On Feb 20, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Tyson Mao wrote: > Perhaps the small group of people that cube at Caltech have the ability > to focus on something they are really truly passionate about? I don't > see the correlation. Maybe we're different from most people out there? > Perhaps we really can succeed at cubing, in even a highly stressful > academic environment. > > Yeah, I'm pretty confident that our undergraduate core curriculum is > one of the most intense academic workloads in the world. It's > impossible to rank them numerically, but I'll say we're definitely in > the top 1/2%. > > In any case, it's true. The hours people spend cubing are for their > own benefit. The hours we spend running competitions and assisting in > everything else gives us no such self-gratification. > > Tyson Mao > Astrophysics '06 > California Institute of Technology > > On Feb 20, 2006, at 2:21 PM, GameOfDeath2 wrote: > >> --- In [email protected], aznseashell >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> What, just because we have a lot of homework we can't have our >>> hobbies? I'd also like to point out that "the amount of cubing that >>> seems to go on in Caltech" is centralized around a small handful of >>> people, out of the 900+ undergraduates that go here. >>> >>> Shelley >>> >>> >>> --- In [email protected], GameOfDeath2 >>> <no_reply@> wrote: >>> >>>> From the amount of cubing that seems to go on in CalTech I would be >>> amazed if that statement was true. >>> >> >> Not at all - I'm saying is that if CalTech really has more homework >> than any educational >> establishment on earth (except in India) then nobody would have time >> to do so much >> cubing. Are you confirming the statement about CalTech having more >> homework than all >> those other places? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
